Thanks for sharing, Nick A This image is working on my device. Now I want to know more about how to create this image. Can you plz share with me any tutorial or documentation on this. Thank a lot

Hello everyone, I am creating a custom Armbian build for OPI5 && OPI5b. The task is as follows: install several packages in the system and fully configure it. While there are no issues with installing packages and configuring the network, there is a peculiarity with the login and password. Specifically, sometimes after writing the image to the emmc opi5b or SD card, the system allows me to log in with my pre-configured credentials, but other times, when flashing the same image, the system simply rejects my pre-set data and displays the message “Login Incorrect.” How I set the initial settings for the system: In /root there is a file called .not_logged_in_yet, from which data is pulled when you first log in to the system, thanks to which it is automatically configured (this method was tested on nanopi m6 and RPI 3b+) and everything worked fine, but for some reason, it is with orangepi 5 && orangepi 5b that I get such artifacts. My .not_logged_in_yet looks like this: # Network settings PRESET_NET_CHANGE_DEFAULTS="1" PRESET_NET_WIFI_ENABLED="1" PRESET_NET_WIFI_SSID="MyWiFi" PRESET_NET_WIFI_KEY="MyWiFiPassword" PRESET_NET_WIFI_COUNTRYCODE=“RU” PRESET_CONNECT_WIRELESS="n" PRESET_NET_USE_STATIC="1" PRESET_NET_STATIC_IP="192.168.1.100" PRESET_NET_STATIC_MASK=“255.255.255.0” PRESET_NET_STATIC_GATEWAY="192.168.1.1" PRESET_NET_STATIC_DNS="8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4" # System settings SET_LANG_BASED_ON_LOCATION="n" PRESET_LOCALE="ru_RU.UTF-8" PRESET_TIMEZONE="Europe/Moscow" # Root settings PRESET_ROOT_PASSWORD="mysecretrootpass" # User creation PRESET_USER_NAME="user1" PRESET_USER_PASSWORD="mypassword" PRESET_DEFAULT_REALNAME="User One" PRESET_USER_SHELL="bash" For my Armbian image, I use the VENDOR 6.1 kernel - ubunu 22.04 jammy. What could be the problem?

@Nick AI don't think it's the same issue.Later, I entered the Android system and used the dd command to flash the x96q tvbox IMG file into the mmcblk. It successfully ran the armbian via eMMC.Next, I will try the x98h Wi-Fi chip driver.Thanks

@buzz89 never heard of it. If you have root access you probably can.

@prahal thank you so much for explaining that. I tried downloading the https://fi.mirror.armbian.de/incoming/prahal/rock-5-itx/archive/Armbian_25.8.1_Rock-5-itx_bookworm_vendor_6.1.115_xfce_desktop.img.xz but Balena Etcher would fail at the end of the validation process. However ... from RoobiOS I can enter that path and it successfully downloads the image and appears to write it successfully to the NVMe drive and then reboots but only gives a single flash of blue SATA III lights and no display. I erased the NVMe partition and tried the Armbian_25.8.1_Rock-5-itx_noble_vendor_6.1.115_minimal.img.xz image with the same result. Same with Armbian_25.8.1_Rock-5-itx_bookworm_vendor_6.1.115_minimal.img.xz - no joy. Eventually I just went with the RADXA OS. It installs KDE Plasma so I've booted to command line and removed KDE and associated packages. Hopefully that effectively gives me a CLI image. Now to work through the error messages in the bootup and remove any unnecessary steps... after I manage to set the default font-size to something that doesn't have me squinting like Mr Magoo 🤣🤣